Books

Greenhouse gas emissions have caused considerable changes in climate, including increased surface air temperatures and rising sea levels. This e-textbook presents a series of laboratory exercises in R that teach the Earth science and statistical concepts needed for assessing climate-related risks. These exercises are intended for upper-level undergraduates, beginning graduate students, and professionals in other areas who wish to gain insight into academic climate risk analysis.

This book is about exploratory testing as an approach to thinking and learning while testing. Some might call this skilled testing. Some might say just testing (of good quality). It's about the special thing professional testers do to when they provide great results, so that you can learn to do it better too.

Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a powerful framework for ecotoxicology and stress ecology. This book provides a gentle introduction into the concepts behind DEB theory, and how to apply them in practice to understand stressor effects. The book is completely "math free".

Just Enough Linux aims at getting you comfortable with some of the commands used in Linux and to hopefully help you 'get' Linux.

Modern AI applications are not built from scratch but, instead, by integrating off-the-shelf components: libraries, frameworks, and services. "Applied Artificial Intelligence - An Engingeering Approach" focuses on engineering user friendly, high-performance, and maintainable AI applications.

This book provides a reader with a holistic and in-depth knowledge of the Python language. It explains how methods and functions are related, how sequences can be created elegantly, the tools for functional programming, how user defined objects can be no different from Python objects and how one can control almost everything from import statements to class creation using meta-classes and decorators etc.

If you use the command line, you need to be using tmux. Tmux lets you control multiple processes from one screen and makes you look like a rockstar in the process. (I mean, you know, one of those command line rockstars. Maybe someone from a techno band.) Painless Tmux aims to make it easy for you to unleash the awesomeness.

Trailblazer introduces several new abstraction layers into Rails. It gives developers structure and architectural guidance and finally answers the question of "Where do I put this kind of code?" in Rails. This book walks you through a realistic development of a Rails application with Trailblazer and discusses every bloody aspect of it.

Presentation and control of interactive maps for traditional Internet and mobile platforms is now in your hands using leaflet.js. This book is aimed at helping people get started with this awesome JavaScript library. You can download for free or donate if you feel like contributing to further development :-).

Explore the many facets and styles of leadership with the leaders of the Problem Solving Leadership workshop.

An introduction to Common Lisp and many useful example programs. Use LLMs, as well as classic symbolic AI techniques.

You distinguish yourself from others not so much by what you've read, viewed or listened to, but by the lasting impact that information has had upon you. How can you use knowledge to become a more effective person? Cognitive Productivity answers this question with cognitive science and practical strategies.